# Telangana staff reject minister blame over 22-A land list errors 2026-08-21T04:16:57+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Employee associations in Telangana have hit back at Ministers who blamed officials for the controversy over prohibited Category 22-A land lists, calling the finger-pointing unfair. Revenue Minister Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy admitted the inclusion of private properties was a mistake by District Collectors using outdated lists. Roads and Buildings Minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy then suggested a conspiracy by officials from the previous government, and said he had warned Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy four months ago that 42,000 acres in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district appeared on the list. Employees argue officials only follow government orders and cannot act independently. They question how the problem could appear simultaneously across districts if it were the act of a few employees. Revenue staff note that the Stamps and Registration Department had sought land details last October, and those were submitted in the prescribed format. The Ministers have promised a comprehensive inquiry into the 22-A lists, but employees demand answers about what the government did after the Chief Minister was allegedly alerted four months ago. ## Indian Opinion Analysis The 22-A list dispute has deep roots in an old and tangled legal process. The Telangana Revenue Act's Section 22-A prohibits registration of certain lands, chiefly government property, temple lands, and those under court attachment. Errors in such lists can freeze lakhs of properties, creating a crisis for ordinary buyers and sellers who discover their land is suddenly unregisterable. The real question is procedural: who loads and updates the data? The Stamps and Registration department draws from District Collector records, and any mistake at that feeding point ripples across districts. With allegations and counter-allegations flying, the government now faces two tests, a promised inquiry to fix the lists, and whether it can overhaul the underlying data-sharing system before the next property registration rush. ## Coverage - telanganatoday.com Leads with employee opposition to ministerial blame, frames ministers as deflecting but reports their quoted admissions neutrally. The employee Sangham's counter-view gets more space. This story was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: A Revanth Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy, Section 22-A, Telangana Employees Sangham Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/telangana-staff-reject-minister-blame-over-22-a-land-list-errors/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/telangana-staff-reject-minister-blame-over-22-a-land-list-errors/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/